Raj (name)
Raj (Hindi: राज, Urdu: راج, Bengali: রাজ) in different contexts means "rule", "king", "ruler", "emperor" or "royalty" and "power" in the Sanskrit language families of the Indian sub-continent, including Romanes, its closest Indo-European relative. The word is cognate to Latin rex.
Notable people with the name include
Given name or nickname
- Raj Ballav Koirala, (born 1982) Nepalese actor
- Raj Gupta, American business executive
- Raj Kamal Jha (born 1966), Indian novelist and journalist
- Raj Kapoor (1924–1988), Indian actor, director and producer
- Raj Kaul, eighteenth century ancestor of Jawahar Lal Nehru
- Raj Khosla (1925–1991), Indian director
- Raj Krishna, Indian economist
- Raj Manhas, American educator
- Raj Man Singh Chitrakar, Nepalese
- Raj Mohinder Singh Majitha, Indian politician
- Raj Mukherji, New Jersey lobbyist and real estate developer
- Raj Narain (1917–1986), Indian politician
- Raj Pannu (born 1934), Canadian educator and politician
- Raj Patel (born 1972), British-born academic, journalist, activist and writer
- Rajendra Persaud (born 1963), psychiatrist, broadcaster, and author
- Raj Pradhan, Nepalese cricketer
- Dabbala Rajagopal Raj Reddy (born 1937), pioneer in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
- Raj Rajaratnam (born 1957), former manager of the hedge fund Galleon Group, convicted in 2011 of insider trading
- Raj Rajeshwari Devi, Former Queen of Nepal
- Raj Singh (disambiguation), multiple people
- Raj Thackeray (born 1968), Indian politician
Middle name
- Bamsa Raj Pande, Nepalese noble courtier
- Bhakta Raj Acharya, Nepalese Bhajan singer
- Bharat Raj Upreti, Chief Justice of Nepal
- Deepak Raj Giri, Nepalese actor
- Dev Raj Joshi, Nepalese
- Janak Raj Giri, Nepalese
- Khem Raj Bhatta Mayalu, Nepalese politician
- Khem Raj Gurung, Nepalese singer
- Khil Raj Regmi, Former Chief Justice and Head of Council of Ministers of Nepal
- Nabindra Raj Joshi, Nepalese politician
- Ram Raj Pant, Nepalese
Surname
- Anil Raj (1984 – 2019), American human rights activist, Amnesty International board member, killed on November 24, 2019 in Kabul while working on the United Nations Development Programme
- Charan Raj (born 1958), Indian film actor, director, music director, film producer, and writer
- Jagdish Raj (1928–2013), Bollywood actor who holds a Guinness World Record for being the most typecast actor
- K. N. Raj (1924-2010), Indian economist
- Maria Venus Raj (born 1988), Filipino beauty queen, TV personality, model, and actress
- Mithali Raj (born 1982), Indian cricketer
- Prakash Raj or Raj (born 1965), Indian actor and producer
Fictional characters
- Raj Koothrappali, on the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory
- Raj King, played by Aatif Nawaz in the British web series Corner Shop Show
- Roger "Raj" Thomas, on the American TV series What's Happening!! and What's Happening Now!!
- Raj, the neurotic Indian elephant on the American cartoon series Camp Lazlo
- Raj, the shop assistant who appears in every one of David Walliams novels except Awful Auntie
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